{"id":372,"date":"2018-05-03T14:28:58","date_gmt":"2018-05-03T21:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eastasianlib.org\/newsite\/committees-2\/japanese-materials\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T10:41:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T17:41:23","slug":"cjm","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.eastasianlib.org\/newsite\/cjm\/","title":{"rendered":"Committee on Japanese Materials"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-372\"  class=\"panel-layout\" ><div id=\"pg-372-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-372-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-372-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-tabs panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"0\" ><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-tabs so-widget-sow-tabs-default-05130e460f8b-372\"\n\t\t\t data-use-anchor-tags=\"true\"\n\t\t><div class=\"sow-tabs\">\n\t<div class=\"sow-tabs-tab-container\" role=\"tablist\">\n\t\t\t<div\n\t\t\tclass=\"sow-tabs-tab\n\t\t\t sow-tabs-tab-selected\t\t\t\"\n\t\t\trole=\"tab\"\n\t\t\tdata-anchor-id=\"about-the-committee\"\n\t\t\taria-selected=\"true\"\n\t\t\ttabindex=\"0\"\n\t\t>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"sow-tabs-title sow-tabs-title-icon-left\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAbout the Committee\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<div\n\t\t\tclass=\"sow-tabs-tab\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\"\n\t\t\trole=\"tab\"\n\t\t\tdata-anchor-id=\"members-2026-2029\"\n\t\t\taria-selected=\"false\"\n\t\t\ttabindex=\"0\"\n\t\t>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"sow-tabs-title sow-tabs-title-icon-left\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMembers (2026-2029)\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<div\n\t\t\tclass=\"sow-tabs-tab\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\"\n\t\t\trole=\"tab\"\n\t\t\tdata-anchor-id=\"past-members\"\n\t\t\taria-selected=\"false\"\n\t\t\ttabindex=\"0\"\n\t\t>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"sow-tabs-title sow-tabs-title-icon-left\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPast members\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t<div class=\"sow-tabs-panel-container\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"sow-tabs-panel\">\n\t\t\t<div\n\t\t\t\tclass=\"sow-tabs-panel-content\"\n\t\t\t\trole=\"tabpanel\"\n\t\t\t\taria-hidden=\"false\"\n\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Committee on Japanese Materials (CJM) is one of the three area committees of the Council on East Asian Libraries (CEAL). CJM\u2019s major functions include:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Promoting interlibrary and international cooperation among Japanese studies resource specialists from diverse backgrounds, and work to reduce institutional, linguistic, and geographic barriers to accessing resources\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Formulating the CJM program for CEAL Annual Meetings\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Collaborating with the North American Coordinating Council on Japanese Library Resources (NCC) to plan workshops and projects related to Japanese studies resources, including but not limited to new resources, pedagogy, and librarian professional development<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Monitoring new appointments to East Asian studies resource specialist positions within North America and welcoming those to the field, and monitoring new directions and opportunities in Japanese studies librarianship to better support an evolving field<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">CJM is dedicated to a broad definition of \u201cJapanese studies resources\u201d that includes collections about Japan, made in Japan, and written or recorded in the Japanese vernacular, as well as collections by or pertaining to members of the Japanese diaspora and the Indigenous Peoples of Japan.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Please go to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eastasianlib.org\/newsite\/meetings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">annual meeting<\/a>\u00a0page for committee programs at the CEAL annual meeting.<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"sow-tabs-panel\">\n\t\t\t<div\n\t\t\t\tclass=\"sow-tabs-panel-content\"\n\t\t\t\trole=\"tabpanel\"\n\t\t\t\taria-hidden=\"true\"\n\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t<ul>\n<li><strong>Rebecca Mendelson, Chair <\/strong>(Japanese Studies Librarian and Korean Studies Liaison, University of Pennsylvania)<br \/>\nrmendel (at) upenn (dot) edu<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ann Marie Davis<\/strong> (Head of Area Studies and Japanese Studies Librarian, Ohio State University)<br \/>\ndavis.5257 (at) osu (dot) edu<\/li>\n<li><strong>Matthew Hayes<\/strong> (Librarian for Japanese Studies and Asian American Studies, Duke University)<br \/>\nmatt.hayes (at) duke (dot) edu<\/li>\n<li><strong>Kana Jenkins<\/strong> (Curator, Gordon W. Prange Collection; East Asian Studies Librarian, University of Maryland)<br \/>\njenkins1 (at) umd (dot) edu<\/li>\n<li><strong>Haruko Nakamura<\/strong> (Librarian for Japanese Studies,\u00a0Yale University)<br \/>\nharuko.nakamura (at) yale (dot) edu<\/li>\n<li><strong>Chiaki Sakai<\/strong> (Japanese Studies Librarian, Columbia University)<br \/>\ncs3948 (at) columbia (dot) edu<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lynette K Teruya<\/strong> (Okinawan Studies Librarian, University of Hawai\u02bbi at M\u0101noa)<br \/>\nlynettet (at) hawaii (dot) edu<\/li>\n<li><strong>Toshinori Egami, Advisor <\/strong>(Librarian, International Research Center for Japanese Studies)<br \/>\negami (at) nichibun (dot) ac (dot) jp<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ex Officio: Jessalyn Zoom (CEAL President)<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"sow-tabs-panel\">\n\t\t\t<div\n\t\t\t\tclass=\"sow-tabs-panel-content\"\n\t\t\t\trole=\"tabpanel\"\n\t\t\t\taria-hidden=\"true\"\n\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t<p><b>2023-2026<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Toshie Marra, Chair (Librarian for Japanese Collection, University of California, Berkeley)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tsuyoshi Harada (Japanese Studies Librarian and Korean Studies Liaison, University of Iowa)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kana Jenkins (Curator\/East Asian Studies Librarian, Gordon W. Prange Collection, University of Maryland)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Katherine Matsuura (Japan Digital Scholarship Librarian, Japan Digital Research Center, Fung Library, Harvard University)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rebecca Mendelson (Japanese Studies Librarian and Korean Studies Liaison, University of Pennsylvania)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mitsutaka Nakamura (Japanese Studies Librarian, University of Hawai\u2018i at M\u0101noa)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Setsuko Noguchi (Japanese Studies Librarian, Princeton University)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Toshinori Egami, Advisor (Chief Librarian of Public Service Unit, International Research Center for Japanese Studies)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>2020-2023<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chiaki Sakai, Chair (Columbia University)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rebecca Corbett (University of South California)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Keiko Hill (University of Washington)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hye-jin Juhn (University of Notre Dame)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Toshie Marra (University of California, Berkeley)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Setsuko Noguchi (Princeton University)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hamish Todd (British Library)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Steven Witt (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>2017-2020\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fabiano Takashi Rocha, Chair (University of Toronto)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sachiko Iwabuchi (University of Hawai'i at M\u0101noa)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ryuta Komaki (Washington University in St. Louis)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wen-Ling Liu (Indiana University Bloomington)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Toshie Marra (University of California, Berkeley)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Setsuko Noguchi (Princeton University)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Azusa Tanaka (University of Washington)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hamish Todd (British Library)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>2014 - 2017<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Michiko Ito, Chair (University of Kansas)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ryuta Komaki (Washington University in St. Louis)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Adam H. Lisbon (University of Colorado Boulder)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wen-Ling Liu (Indiana University Bloomington)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Toshie Marra (University of California, Berkeley)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Setsuko Noguchi (Princeton University)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fabiano Takashi Rocha (University of Toronto)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hamish Todd (British Library)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>2011 - 2014<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Setsuko Noguchi, Chair (Committee on Institutional Cooperation)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tomoko Bialock (University of Southern California)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Eiichi Ito (Library of Congress)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Toshie Marra (University of California, Berkeley)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chiaki Sakai (University of Iowa)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Keiko Suzuki (Yale University)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hamish Todd (British Library)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>2008 - 2011<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Haruko Nakamura, Chair (Yale University)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Antony Boussemart (Ecole Fran\u00e7aise d'Extr\u00eame-orient Biblioth\u00e8que)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Shirin Eshghi (University of British Columbia)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hiroyuki Good (University of Pittsburgh)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Michiko Ito (University of Kansas)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dawn Lawson (New York University)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Toshie Marra (University of California at Los Angeles)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hikaru Nakano (University of Florida)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Setsuko Noguchi (University. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>2005 - 2008<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Keiko Yokota-Carter, Chair (University of Washington)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tokiko Y. Bazzell (University of Hawai'i)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Antony Boussemart (Ecole fran\u00e7aise d\u2019Extr\u00eame-Orient, France)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Eiichi Ito (Library of Congress)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tomoko Kakehi (University of British Columbia)\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Haruko Nakamura (Yale University)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ikuo Sasakawa (The University of Tokyo)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kenneth Kazuo Tanaka (University of Maryland)\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>2002 - 2005<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kuniko Yamada McVey, Chair (Harvard University)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hitoshi Kamada\u00a0 (University of Arizona)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Toshie Marra (University of California, Los Angeles)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kenji Niki (University of Michigan)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Keiko Higuchi (International House of Japan)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Alban M. Kojima (University of Pennsylvania)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>1999-2002<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hihideyuki Morimoto, Chair (University of California, Berkeley)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Frank L. Chance (Princeton University)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Scott Edward Harrison (University of Washington)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Toshie Marra (University of California,\u00a0 Los Angeles)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">William B. McCloy, Ex Officio (University of Washington)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kuniko Yamada McVey (Harvard University)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yuki Nagano (International Christian University)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>1996-1999 <\/b><b><\/b><b><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sachie Noguchi, Chair (University of Pittsburgh)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Robert Britt (University of Washington)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Izumi Koide (International House Japan)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lynne Kutsukake (University of Toronto)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hideyuki Morimoto (University of California,\u00a0 Berkeley)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>1993-1996 (Subcommittee on Japanese Materials until 1995)\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Eizaburo Okuizumi, Chair (University of Chicago)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">E. Harrison<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">M. Matsui<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">S. Noguchi<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Y. Sawa<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">R. Yoshimura<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About the Committee Members (2026-2029) Past members The Committee on Japanese Materials (CJM) is one of the three area committees of the Council on East Asian Libraries (CEAL). 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